Me-410 vs Mosquito combat - Luftwaffe and Allied Air Forces Discussion Forum

Paul Thompson · #11 8th June 2015, 01:32

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Originally Posted by Chris Goss

Paul
I would have thought that such barbettes were more effective as a warning as opposed to actually shooting a jinking target down.
I do not have such figures-don't forget II/KG 51 as well
Chris

Chris,

Thank you for your reply. The ineffectiveness of the barbettes throws an interesting light on the persistent Luftwaffe interest in such equipment. Perhaps they should have stayed away from this technical innovation altogether.

ArtieBob's recently published part 2 of the Ju 88 book has statistics on II./KG 51 losses in Steinbock - 17 combat and 4 non-combat. I think other data will be harder to find, so I'll keep looking!

Regards,

Paul

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